Vegetable-paring attachment



S. L. ADDISON.

VEGETABLE PARING ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION man MAR.2I.19I6- RENEWED APR.29. I919.

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lA/I/E/V TOR OZ; 2 'j/mon L. 170M300 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON L. ADDISON, OE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNEASSIGNMENTS, 0F SIXTY-TWO PER CENT. TO E. MICHAEL MALLETTE AND SIX- TEEN]?ER CENT. T0 WILLIAM STERN, BOTH 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

VEGETABLE-PARING- ATTACHMENT.

Application filed March 21, 1916, Serial No. 85,585.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON L. ADDISON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-FaringAttachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in knife guards for paringknives, and the object of this improvement is to provide a cheap andsimple knife guard that may quickly and easily be applied to an ordinaryparing knife to prevent the blade of the knife from cutting more deeplythan is necessary in an article that is being pared, thereby savingvaluable food that would otherwise be removed with the paring.

Further objects are to provide a gouge on the knife guard and to so formthe knife guard that the adaptability of the knife blade for scraping anobject will not be 1mpaired when the guard is placed thereon.

The invention consists in the novel c011- struction of a knife guard,and the adaptation and combination of such guard with a knife blade, aswill be more clearly described in the following specification,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in theappended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of aknife guard constructed in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is aview of a blank from which the same is made; Fig. 3 is a View inelevation of one side of a paring knife with this guard applied thereto;Fig. 4; is a View in elevation of the other side of the knife shown inFig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a view in crosssection on broken line 5-5 of Fig.4:.

Referring to the drawings throughout which like reference numeralsindicate like parts, the numeral 6 indicates a blank from which thisknife-guard is made. The blank 6 is preferably formed by stamping, asshown in Fig. 2, one side portion being partially cut away to leavethereon two side clips 7 and 8 and a gouge 9 and the body of the blankbeing cut on the line 10 to form a guard-plate 11, and a side piece 12.

After the blank has been stamped out, as shown in Fig. 2, it is bentdouble substantially on a line that passes through the baseSpecification of Letters Patent.

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portions of the clips 7 and 8, the bend being somewhat gradual, asillustrated at 13 in Fig. 5, and the clips 7 and 8 being archedoutwardly at 1% and 15 to form spring portions that hold the clips 7 and8 and the side piece 12 firmly in contact with opposite sides of a knifeblade 16 when the guard is applied thereto.

The gouge 9 is preferably sharpened and is formed to project upwardsubstantially in the plane of the guard on the end thereof adjacent thehandle 17 of the knife, whereby the gouge may be used to remove the eyesof potatoes and decayed and damaged spots on other vegetables andfruits, and also serve as a support or rest for the thumb of theoperator.

The guard plate 11 is formed of arcuate cross-section and is turnedoutwardly, as

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shown in Figs. 1 and 5, in such a manner mit the paring or skin of avegetable or fruit that is being pared, to pass therebetween, and itwill be further noted that the top surface of the guard 11 lies insubstantially the same plane as the cutting edge of the knife blade asillustrated by broken line A' in Fig. 5, and that the guard plate curvesoutward and downward, as viewed in Fig. 5 in such a manner that the edgeof the knife will be accessible for scraping as well as for paring. Thisis an important feature especially when the knife is used for paringpotatoes and other like vegetables.

The guard is preferably formed of sufficient length to cover the majorportion of the blade of an ordinary paring knife, the point thereof,however, being allowed to project from the end of the guard so that itmay be used for cutting out decayed spots in fruits, vegetables and thelike.

The guard may be made to fit any desired form of knife and isreversible, the gouge 9 obviously being adjacent the point instead ofadjacent the handle of the knife when the guard is adjusted to a knifethat is to be held in the left hand of the operator.

What I claim and desire to protect by blade and tangent to the Cuttingedge of Letters-Patent, issaid knife-blade to permit said'knife-blade Aknife guard comprising a late that is to be used for scrap1ng.

bent double'to adapt it to be sipped over Signed at Seattle, Washington,this 7th 5 the blade of a knife, and a guard cut from day of March 1916.

said plate and formed to extend rearwardly of the knife edge, said guardbeing of SIMON ADDISON arcuate cross-section and the top surface ofWitnesses: said guard being substantially in a plane HORACE BARNES, 10perpendicular to the plane of said knife E. PETERSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressin'g the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. G. v

